34 :: Learning to drop tracks

Today’s experiment in using my Garmin eTrex Venture HC GPS to pinpoint all the bike racks on campus was only a partial success because its battery died and I have neither its power or data cord with me. But it was enough to get started…

I figured out how to mark way points and rather than dutifully name them, I just used my digital camera to take pictures of the waypoints and the place that they marked. I was just about to add them to my campus map manually when I realized that the locations given are using latitudes with minutes and seconds instead of decimal degrees.